| 单词 | elemental spirits |
| 释义 | > as lemmaselemental spirits a. Pertaining to the powers or agencies of physical nature. elemental spirits, elemental gods, etc.: those which are personifications of natural phenomena, or are associated with particular departments of nature. So elemental worship, elemental religion. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [adjective] > associated with nature elementary1739 elemental1820 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iv. i. 150 Ye elemental Genii, who have homes From man's high mind even to the central stone Of sullen lead. 1850 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire I. v. 260 Elemental worship of the grossest kind. 1865 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Rationalism (1878) I. 42 To rise to intercourse with these elemental spirits of nature was the highest aim of the philosopher. 1875 C. Merivale Gen. Hist. Rome lxviii. 554 He continued to serve his elemental fetiche, and introduced the rude black stone which represented the Sun. 1876 W. E. Gladstone Homeric Synchronism 109 Amphitrite appears in the Odyssey only as an elemental power. < as lemmas |
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